Really not a fan of the implication that people who are like "Hey, maybe a freakin' 90-year-old shouldn't run the house financial services committee" are being motivated by sexism and/or racism? But fine, let's review.

So like 8k personnel? To do ??? operations in order to achieve ??? goals

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woke 2.0 as a contemporary social conscience inflected by deep reverence for the strong state and accompanying norms of prosociality of the early midcentury has really resonated with me but also I might just be 46 now

it's interesting that THE PITT is in many ways a very woke show, but also it's a hierarchical, high pressure workplace full of sharp elbows and big egos and people whose personal liking for each other can be highly variable anyways that to me would have made for a genuinely great nu trek.

I missed this the first time around but

i have given the matter some thought and you know i just don't think trans women were invented by the patriarchy. i just don't think that's true

i just find it hard to look at the last twenty years and believe that bullying is good, effective political praxis. sorry

This is my theory Current Moment. Huge swathes of the MSM really really wanted a 10-15% shift to the right relative to Peak Woke, in large part because they were very extremely afraid of the consequences of gender equality as seen in MeToo. They thought Trump II would be the vehicle for that....

"I'm against harassment, unless I agree with it" thank you for being so brave, Chris

the absolute litmus test for every democratic primary needs to be “do you support Supreme Court reform that would replace the current illegitimate majority with a liberal majority, and do you support filibuster reform to get us there”

You cannot be saying this kind of thing when your primary job is podcaster.

removing the real, faltering trump from the news and replacing him with an imaginary trump of their own invention. more he falters, the more the imaginary reasonable trump shows up in the stories and especially the headlines

this is fundamentally why the media loves trump: trump loves creating drama. he knows how to get you to tune in next week. that's an exciting story, a good old fashioned cliffhanger. "this is all wildly unconstitutional and stupid" is Boring

you know i think it's bad that the president can just start a ground war with anyone he wants to for whatever reason. we should put something in the constitution about that

Like, I get that the point of Bari Weiss is to make CBS news maga-friendly or die trying, but she keeps seeming **genuinely surprised** that it’s not going well in a business or reputation sense.

Trump 2.0 has been marked by an increasingly wide and obvious gulf between media elites and the general American public, which the elites themselves seem oddly confused about.

It really cannot be overstated the degree to which all of these people, across the political spectrum, from Bari Weiss to Glenn Greenwald, have cooked their brains online and developed a deeply skewed view of who the public are and what they want.

kathleen stock doing the "looking into this" post as she starts to realize trans rights are, in fact, a totally correct outcome of feminist principles lmao

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women are too emotional to lead. you see

I said to a friend just yesterday, fucking Woodrow Wilson figured out that imperial America was a bad solution, but it was the least worst. Then we tried to pretend it wasn’t for 20 years and got Hitler and Tojo. Now we’re doing it again.

Let us also recall the context for the classic “white ways of knowing and being” tweet was Paul Williams asking a PhD community organizer how she would solve a real world problem with unavoidable tradeoffs.

Left NIMBYs have radicalized me. I'm the ultimate YIMBY now. Build everywhere. Knock down and seize anything abandoned. Ignore the complainers. BUILD HOUSING

Btw, I've never understood the slogan "decommodify housing". Housing's not a commodity. Commodities under capitalism are cheap and plentiful. Housing right now is an investment asset, and the Left intelligentsia who are already on the property ladder benefit from that

Fetterman can't win a D primary. He's pro choice and pro trans and thinks biden won 2020, so he can't win an R primary. very much doubt he can win as an independent and if he does given his current approval numbers he's most likely to split R vote, not D. 1

"Do you follow any bluesky block lists?" "Yes, people replying to Samantha."

this is the fakest shit i have ever heard

the left-nimby mindset is also perfectly captured by another Simpsons bit where Skinner’s mom is playing the role of NIMBYs who simultaneously complain that a building is too tall, casts too many shadows, and doesn’t have enough *truly affordable* housing

so much of anti-housing politics is pure aestheticism. it fits a certain archetype of activism to be positioned against “developers.” the facts on the ground do not matter.

This is an appreciation post. I am grateful that Liberal Currents exists. While there are other lovely publications, I just wanted to show some appreciation here too.

failures of the neocons discredited idealism, but the current crew is managing to render publics cynical about cynicism itself. maybe there’s something hopeful in that.

"why should americans care about ___!?!?" prior to wwii we had this idea that we could just live away from the world. the war was a brutal reminder that despite the size of the atlantic and pacific, we do in fact live in the world. this is truer today than it's ever been.

I want to make clear for a second with this comment, it’s not just the green dipshit in this particular thread, it’s the entirety of 21st century fucking politics doing this now. Republicans want manufacturing job where hungover man swings hammer, because of aesthetic.

The Air War College asked Kori Schake not to give a scheduled lecture on civil-military relations—a subject that she writes is “extremely relevant” in the current political climate. Here’s what she would have said:

the left nimby program in a nutshell 1: "decommodify housing" 2: sadly, no new housing is built 3: i inherit my parents' house

I think a popular take on here is that the US military neglected to learn from the War in Ukraine -- this is categorically false. The real questions are "what should we learn from Ukraine" and "how" and "can we cut across our internal politics to implement those lessons?"

what if lydia tár had a gun... Much to think about....

it is always kind of funny to encounter the "liberals have no theory of power" shibboleth from people who, in my experience, are not merely as far from understanding power--how to gain it and how to exercise it--as it is possible to be, but who do not seem to even *want* to gain and exercise power

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in the takestorms that break out on here, it's so common to use lenin--or mao--or the hammer and sickle--as a kind of identity marker, a way to define who you're against and who you're allowed to hate--fights about this century-gone revolution a way of indirectly fighting about today's politics

For all the horrors of the social media era, I gotta say. The fact that I can be in this stay-at-home era, here with my kids, and at the same time debating Hochschild's theories around feminized labor with cool sociologists really underlines for me the value of these networks

You watch it like this. This is the goal I have when at da movies

one begins to suspect that your support for bloody revolutions has more to do with the "bloody" than the "revolution"

It’s because intrinsically manhood is linked to violence for him. For him, another man indicating romantic interest in his daughter reminds him of his fundamentally violent relationship to both men and women, and forces him to recapitulate the fantasy that exists at the base of his gender identity

ever since stalin's death, communists have found it very convenient to make him the sin eater for the soviet union's flaws--the evil psychopath who perverted lenin's pure, hopeful revolution. gorbachev believed this, absolutely wholeheartedly! but also like: lol no

The lazy & shiftless liberal commentator versus the manly & heroic socialist poster

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i personally would watch "cate blanchett destroys the world and then herself" with voraciousness